Neural perception and action-inspired electronics is becoming important for interactive human-machine interfaces and intelligent robots.A system that implements neuromorphic environmental information coding,synaptic s...Neural perception and action-inspired electronics is becoming important for interactive human-machine interfaces and intelligent robots.A system that implements neuromorphic environmental information coding,synaptic signal processing,and motion control is desired.Wereport aneuroinspired artifcialreflex arcthat possesses visual and'somatosensory dual aferent nerve paths and an eferent nerve path to control artificial muscles.A self-powered photoelectric synapse between the afferent and efferent nerves was used as thekey information processor.The artificial reflex arc successfully responds to external visual and tactile information and controls the actions of artificial muscle in response to these external stimuli and thus emulates reflex activities through a full refex arc.The visual and somatosensory information is encoded as impulse spikes,the frequency of which exhibited a sublinear dependence on the obstacle proximity orpressure stimuli.The artificial reflex arc suggests a promising strategy toward developing soft neurorobotic systems and prostheses.展开更多
基金supported by the National Science Founda-tion for Distinguished Young Scholars of China(T2125005)Tianjin Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars(19JCJQJC61000)and Shenzhen Science and Tech-nology Project (JCYJ20210324121002008)。
文摘Neural perception and action-inspired electronics is becoming important for interactive human-machine interfaces and intelligent robots.A system that implements neuromorphic environmental information coding,synaptic signal processing,and motion control is desired.Wereport aneuroinspired artifcialreflex arcthat possesses visual and'somatosensory dual aferent nerve paths and an eferent nerve path to control artificial muscles.A self-powered photoelectric synapse between the afferent and efferent nerves was used as thekey information processor.The artificial reflex arc successfully responds to external visual and tactile information and controls the actions of artificial muscle in response to these external stimuli and thus emulates reflex activities through a full refex arc.The visual and somatosensory information is encoded as impulse spikes,the frequency of which exhibited a sublinear dependence on the obstacle proximity orpressure stimuli.The artificial reflex arc suggests a promising strategy toward developing soft neurorobotic systems and prostheses.
